Glass Castle Rose Mary Walls Quotes & Sayings

To walk in Time, perhaps, as men walk on long roads ... to see the lie of old and even forgotten lands, to behold ancient men walking, and to hear their languages as they spoke them, in the days before the days, when tongues of forgotten lineage were heard in kingdoms long fallen by the shores of the Atlantic.
J.R.R. Tolkien: The Lost Road — J.R.R. Tolkien

Come, seeling night, Scarf up the tender eye of pitiful day, And with thy bloody and invisible hand Cancel and tear to pieces that great bond Which keeps me pale. Light thickens, and the crow Makes wing to th' rooky wood. Good things of day begin to droop and drowse, While night's black agents to their prey do rouse. — William Shakespeare

Those who are really in earnest must be willing to be anything or nothing in the world's estimation. — Susan B. Anthony

I guess I feel the same way about being a corpse. Why lie around on your back when you can do something interesting and new, something useful? — Mary Roach

The big belly can accommodate all kinds of things. The benevolence is never let a dust behind. — Gautama Buddha

Six-pack? Was it possible to have an eight-pack?
I think he had one. Smooth skin stretched over tightly rolled muscles. I bet I could've done a week's worth of laundry on his stomach.
Probably would be a heck of a lot more fun that way to wash clothes. — Jennifer L. Armentrout

What if someone comes?" I half-heartedly protest. "No one's coming here but you. — Katy Evans